A right to counsel for tenants can delay evictions—but it also raises rents.
Making a process slower and more expensive is bad. That basic fact seems likely to overwhelm all others.
I would be curious what the Steelman in favour of this policy is.
Clogging the courts and dragging out these open and shut cases means real victims wait for justice
It’s taken me a year to even get in front of a judge after my former landlord blatantly stole my security deposit, for example
Not moving cases quickly hurts people who actually need help
“ Anyone convinced that eviction is an act of violence and simply should never happen to anyone, anywhere,…”
Anyone “convinced” of that is a full-blown communist, not merely a socialist or a Democratic Socialist.
If no one could ever be evicted, why would anyone pay any rent ever?
Making a process slower and more expensive is bad. That basic fact seems likely to overwhelm all others.
I would be curious what the Steelman in favour of this policy is.
Clogging the courts and dragging out these open and shut cases means real victims wait for justice
It’s taken me a year to even get in front of a judge after my former landlord blatantly stole my security deposit, for example
Not moving cases quickly hurts people who actually need help
“ Anyone convinced that eviction is an act of violence and simply should never happen to anyone, anywhere,…”
Anyone “convinced” of that is a full-blown communist, not merely a socialist or a Democratic Socialist.
If no one could ever be evicted, why would anyone pay any rent ever?